Category Archives: Tutorials
- October 23, 2008
- Photoshop Tutorial: Designing a Poster for a Portable Gaming Device
I know Design Blurb needs more content, but my good pal from Photoshop Lady requested that I write him a tutorial, so I did. You can view my newest Photoshop tutorial over at Photoshop Lady. I had a lot of fun making this one, because I actually recently purchased a GP2X F-200
- September 16, 2008
- Photoshop/Illustrator Tutorial: Designing a Vexel Banner
In this tutorial I will teach you some of the techniques I use when designing my banners. It requires a basic knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop, but if you don’t understand anything please feel free to ask me.
I have covered all the basic steps I used when making banners, but there are obviously a lot [...]
- September 10, 2008
- Illustrator Tutorial: Designing a Sleek Pencil Icon
Even though I consider myself a newby with Adobe Illustrator, I’ve been learning it for a few months now, and I find it very intriguing! I was inspired to design this kooky little pencil, that some would say works for icon design. So I thought I would write a tutorial on how to achieve the [...]
- September 1, 2008
- Photoshop Tutorial: Sweet Radio Station Advert Design
My first tutorial in a little while, so please bear with me!
In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement. We’ll just be using Illustrator to design a few simple elements, so if you don’t have it or don’t know how to use it, you [...]
- July 17, 2008
- Learn Adobe Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days!
Yep, you read right! iStockDiary has started something unique, it’s a Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days Crash Course. So far only 3 days of reading material are up, but there’s going to be one more lesson added each day.
If you haven’t learned Illustrator yet, get goin’!
- July 16, 2008
- Designing Vector Flourishes in Photoshop– also posted in Vector
Taken from aivault:
After recieving many requests of how to create floral brushes in photoshop here is a tutorial , this tutorial has a source psd file with all the shapes in layers as wellas a brushes file which we will be creating by the end of the tutorial.Myself being a beginner with vector stuff I [...]
- July 1, 2008
- Photoshop Tutorial: Add a Quick Retro Look to your Images
In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll be showing you how to add a nice, 70’s retro look to your images. It’s a very simple process using either colors or gradients, layer modes and opacities, and also some subtle textures
This effect can be extremely helpful when designing retro-themed posters or something of that nature.
- May 4, 2008
- Quick & Simple Burnt-In Effect
Start by finding a texture you want to use as your base, for this tutorial I just used a free texture I found on Design Reviver (link). Get the texture and resize it if you like. Now put some text or a shape onto your canvas.
